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Arthur Streeton’s masterpiece Sunlight at the Camp 1894 (Lot 22) makes its auction debut after one hundred and thirty years hidden from public view, along with numerous major works that make their auction debut in Smith & Singer’s forthcoming sale of Important Australian Art to be held in Sydney on Wednesday, 17 April 2024 at 6:30pm.
International Art Centre’s Important & Rare Art sale on the 26th of March features an outstanding collection of museum quality works. A highlight of the auction is a selection of paintings from the Estate of Patrick Hutchings. Professor Hutchings wrote extensively on the philosophy of art for leading publications such as Landfall. Brent Wong's masterpiece, Establishment, 1969 (Lot 32). is a classic Brent Wong composition. The characteristic combination of blue sky, sea, dry grassed hills, fluffy white clouds and ghostly white architectural elements mark the work as dating from the first decade of his exhibiting career.
Among the recognisable catalogue of artists, the Lawson’s March Fine Art auction is predominantly lead by Australian modernists. Featured among the selection is Arthur Boyd, Ray Crooke, Lin Onus, Clifton Pugh and Jean Appleton.
Gary Shead’s The Visitors (Lot 519) is one of a series of paintings from the D H Lawrences series painted in the early 90s. Based on Lawrence’s novel Kangaroo and inspired by Lawrences’ stay in town township of Thirroul along the the southern coast of NSW, the paintings are semi-autobiographical. Purchased from Kenthurst Galleries in the early 2000s and has remained within a private collection since.
Ever the optimist, head of Aboriginal art at Deutscher and Hackett Crispin Gutteridge is confident the auction house’s forthcoming major sale of Important Australian Indigenous Art – from 7pm Tuesday March 26 in its Melbourne office at 105 Commercial Road, South Yarra – will at least be as successful as those of the previous two years.
“Both of those auctions achieved over the high-end estimate of $3 million,” he said. “This one’s top estimate is $2.5 million and we hope to achieve that again.”
Crispin has good reason to be upbeat about the auction. For starters, there are five Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c1924-2015) paintings on offer beginning with Lot 1, Dibirdibi Country, 2009.
Although she did not begin her art career until age 85, Gabori’s paintings – a tribute to the country on Bentinck island, a small, sparsely vegetated island in the Gulf of Carpentaria – are so revered that Melbourne’s Ian Potter Centre (part of the National Gallery of Victoria) in 2016-17 held a retrospective survey and celebration of her life and work.
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